Chocolate Milk and Its Many Impersonators

So I'd qualify myself by saying I'm partially lactose intolerant, meaning I can have dairy but if I have a bit too much I'll feel like shit. Last year during a boring history lecture I was really craving chocolate milk so I bought two bottles of it at the store in the "skyway" between Blegen and Wiley. Needless to say I powered it down but in about 15 minutes I felt like death. So I pretty much exclusively drink soy chocolate milk now...and its really good.

This brings me to my next point. Some cereals will market themselves as doing two things, being a good start to the morning but also turning your white milk into chocolate milk. The problem I've always had with this is that you get really sugary chocolate milk and the whole charade of it becoming chocolate milk, thus being somehow more desirable always struck me as false. In particular, the whole osmosis of the chocolate 'juices' seems wrong. Its like the cocoa puffs or whatever chocolate cereal is just secreting its chocolate waste for you to drink. NOT COOL.

Also thanks to wikipedia: In music, becoming mainstream with rapper Nelly's song "Country Grammar", the term "Cocoa Puffs" refers to lightly sprinkling Cocaine over Marijuana, which is typically smoked through a pipe. "Cocoa" refers to Cocaine; "Puffs" refers to the act of smoking the mix.